painting and fine art photography

Author: Terri Maxfield Lipp

Terri Maxfield Lipp was born and raised in a tiny town, right smack dab on the border between forest and corn. Seemingly from birth, she was always attracted to looking at or making art, even trading in birthday-cake-wishes for a pony, for more crayons, tempera, and big pieces of paper. Many years later, after an extensive period of…oh, let’s call it “The Years Of Introspection”(many of which were spent in photo labs, art galleries, and bars), she received a degree with honors in Art History from Northern Illinois University in 2001, with minor studies in Fine Arts, Anthropology, and Philosophy. After college, taking all of her hard-earned non-marketable skills on the road, she accidentally moved to a gorgeous little hill town in central Italy for eight years. During this time she was a monthly columnist for the Chicago based magazine “Fra Noi,” chronicling her wacky adventures in a series published as “Io Vagabonda.” She happily resided in Washington, DC before she moved back to Italy in August 2015. She is a full time painter, Empress (ahem…yes…long story…), and the Executive Director of TML Arts, LLC. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, thinking out loud, fuzzy slippers, ice cream and her Playstation.

Luca Longobardi – the Ruggine Project Within nanoseconds of meeting Luca Longobardi for the first time, I felt as if I had taken some amazing curative and enlightening drug. I was attending the opening night of an art exhibition by the excruciatingly talented visual artist Fabio Timpanaro, and his work for this exhibition was his… Read More Luca Longobardi – The Ruggine Project

Seven Centimeters Below The Surface It has been a long time since the thought of nuclear war even seemed like a possibility in my mind. I may be somewhat naive when it comes to our species (admittedly and voluntarily), but I really believed that we humans had evolved to the point where not radiating the… Read More Seven Centimeters Below The Surface

As a fan of all things rainbow and unicorns, I appreciate a colorful approach to living. Purple, for example, holds a special place in my heart, and on my head. Red was my very first favorite color when I was three years old, and there are a lot of nostalgic feelings I have regarding that… Read More Making Peace With Yellow

For a long time I’ve wanted to do a post about the beautiful Colette Lumiere. A few years ago, I ran across a video of her in the process of painting a large scale, segmented, mosaic-style work, in the middle of a street in New York, all the while exquisitely dressed in a white jumpsuit… Read More Colette: The Light Of Lumiere

Djuna Barnes: writer and artist Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer and artist best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. She style is also considered to have been one of the early influencers of dark/black… Read More Djuna Barnes